To: Huck
Then there is this part..."In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."
Congress has the power to bar the court from hearing appeals on the Constitutionality or any particlar law it passes. I wonder what would happen if it used that power?
9 posted on
11/10/2003 1:43:30 PM PST by
Hugin
To: Hugin
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Congress has the power to bar the court from hearing appeals on the Constitutionality or any particlar law it passes. I wonder what would happen if it used that power?"
I would pass out in shock.
10 posted on
11/10/2003 1:45:58 PM PST by
azhenfud
("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
To: Hugin
Congress has the power to bar the court from hearing appeals on the Constitutionality or any particlar law it passes. I wonder what would happen if it used that power? I believe they have. I think the first Congress passed some judicial acts that are still followed today.
12 posted on
11/10/2003 1:51:45 PM PST by
Huck
To: Hugin
Congress has the power to bar the court from hearing appeals on the Constitutionality or any particlar law it passes. I wonder what would happen if it used that power?Ex parte Quirin and Korematsu would essentially remain the guiding cases in this area. But that'll never happen in this case, and not in the vast majority of cases - the courts make too convenient of a scapegoat for Congress for them to really start trimming their jurisdiction.
14 posted on
11/10/2003 1:55:54 PM PST by
general_re
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